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Topic History of: National Album Day Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Green Man
The Drifters is another with controversy, I think the daughter of one of the originals has the name and decided to take advantage of it in the UK.
I think it was Steve Allen on LBC, who saw The Drifters on a cruise ship, the lineup at the time he said looked like teenagers or those in their mid-20s. They had the cheek to say "This was a big hit for us." It was probably for the original group, not for the tribute act.
The logo of The Drifters is them in silhouette and there are no bios of the members on the website. They should be called Drifters UK or the UK Drifters something along those lines.
They are like any other tribute band, if the old dears are taking back in the time, then good luck to them but it's not something I would see, even if it was local.
Green Man
I would suggest with Mother Focus.
If The Enid ever come near it's worth seeing them, there is more members of them than Tangerine Dream, they have a been a tribute band for years.
If you don't know Focus, just bloody go and seem them anyway. I have seen Manfreds a few times and Paul Jones blues gigs, I love the blues gigs but the audience are so rude and ignorant, they do think they are going to hear Manfred songs. A lot of middle age concert goers are more rude than teens at gigs.
Rich
Green Man wrote: Again how are these Swinging Blue Jeans?
I've seen it a number of times with line ups of groups from the sixties where it's blatantly obvious that members of said group were not even conceived at the time the group they are in had any actual hits and proper fame. I think it can be ligitimate say in the case of Manfred Mann where they switched lead singers from Paul Jones to Mike D'Abo halfway through the sixties but carried on having major memorable big hits with the replacement lead singer, or with any line up changes that occurred while any said group was having actual hit records or albums. But many of these line up changes, especially with sixties groups are far from that.
You mentioned Focus. About a month ago I was looking through the album chart from early 1973 and noticed that Focus actually managed to score two top ten albums in the very same week for a while during February and March 1973 with Focus III at No6 and Moving Waves at No3 in their best combined chart week, the latter album peaking No2 the next. Although I know the couple of big singles I don't know the albums so may check them out further. Not many groups, even the biggest of the time were planting two studio albums in the album top ten at the time, was surprised to see that for Focus, and I'm even more surprised to see they are still about and coming near me too.
Apparently just this last July Focus released a new single called Fjord Focus. Always love a good pun! It comes from their latest album Focus 12 released at the same time.
It does not appear to have charted here in the UK, nothing of theirs seems to have done since the 1970's. you might have thought such a group would have sustained some more durable long term album sales.
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